Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?)

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> This patch fixes it: > > [...] > >> + (("translate-file=cp227") >> + (format #f >> "translate-file=~a/share/texmf-dist/web2c/cp227" >> + (assoc-ref inputs "texl

Re: Advantages over Nix?

Quite a few of us here have used and developed against Nix in the past and Nix certainly is a great work and the original inspiration of GNU Guix (and doing things better). When Ludo introduced Guix at FOSDEM in 2014, however, I was convinced to change my ways on the spot - after using Nix (from th

Re: Advantages over Nix?

Hey, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 11:36, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Quite a few of us here have used and developed against Nix in the past > and Nix certainly is a great work and the original inspiration of GNU > Guix (and doing things better). When Ludo introduced Guix at FOSDEM in > 2014, however, I was c

Re: [PATCH v2] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

Hello Miguel! Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas writes: > Hello, Maxim! > > Thanks for your effort in this, some comments with the quotes for > context. Thanks for your comments, they've already made this proposed change much better! > Maxim Cournoyer writes: >>> This fails if geiser-guile-load-path

Re: usage of pypi-uri in the pypi importer

TL;DR: Now that my initial problem is solved anyway. No change is needed at all. zimoun writes: > Dear, > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 at 21:17, Malte Frank Gerdes > wrote: > >> i noticed that the python pypi importer generates packages definitions >> which rely on the pypi-uri function declared in t

[TALK PROPOSAL] Bootstrapping the Java Ecosystem

Hi Guix! So, I guess we need to start collecting talk proposals for the online Guix Day in November. Here's mine :) I'd like to talk about the Maven bootstrap and the Maven Build System. Ensuring that software is built entirely from source is an essential practice to ensure user Freedom, as well

[PATCH v3] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

* .dir-locals.el: Set the GUIX-DIRECTORY and GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH Emacs variables based on the location of the .dir-locals file. --- .dir-locals.el | 21 - 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.dir-locals.el b/.dir-locals.el index 19f15b3e1a..0496e41c

Re: [PATCH v2] .dir-locals.el: Automatically set the GEISER-GUILE-LOAD-PATH variable.

Hi Maxim! Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Thanks for your comments, they've already made this proposed change much > better! You did that, they only may have pointed somewhere, but the effort is yours, so thank you again. >> That cleanup seems to me responsibility of that .emacs maintainer >> instead

Re: [TALK PROPOSAL] Bootstrapping the Java Ecosystem

Am 27.10.20 um 18:30 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > I'd like to talk about the Maven bootstrap and the Maven Build System. +1 -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.2.0-pre2)

Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Russian team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ru.po (We can arrange things

Re: usage of pypi-uri in the pypi importer

Dear, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 18:04, Malte Frank Gerdes wrote: >> (package >> (name "python-pyinstrument-cext") >> (version "0.2.2") >> (source >> (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> (uri (pypi-uri "pyinstrument-cext" version)) >> (sha256 >> (base32 >>

Re: ‘xdg-mime-database’ profile hook is slow

I am just posting my performance numbers. Hopefully you all find it helpful. I am running Guix System on a Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with 8GB on a hard drive. #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output :exports both guix describe #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: #+begin_example Generation 49 Oct 20 2020 01:15:33(cu

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

So I've spent an hour today making a new video. It's about 10 minutes long. I'll cut out some bits of it via video editors. Just an update. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You ca

Re: Advantages over Nix?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 02:14:18PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Let's pick an example: the sources.json file ingested by Software > Heritage. Basically, Guix does that when building its website and the > relevant Scheme code is here: > > >